Cardinal Matteo Zuppi will travel to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on June 5 and 6.
The Vatican made the announcement on the morning of June 5, stating the purpose of the trip is to “listen to Ukrainian authorities” and “support humanity's gestures to ease tensions.”
Pope Francis mentioned the Vatican's “secret peace mission” in Ukraine on his return flight from Hungary in April.
POPE FRANCIS There is a mission going on now, but it is not yet public. Let's see how... When it becomes public, I will speak about it.
Last month, he appointed Cardinal Zuppi to lead the mission. Zuppi, the Archbishop of Bologna, has diplomatic experience helping with terrorist negotiations in Spain in 2017 and the Mozambique peace process in the 1990s.
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